A Face in the Dark and other Hauntings

This is not 007 of whom I've not read but watched only on movies, but my first flavour of Ruskin Bond is pleasanter than I thought. As revealed in the Introduction a non-believer of ghosts did not stop Bond to write some fascinating stories of the other world. The stories all can't be termed as truly of the hauntings but unexplained phenomenon predominates in almost all the stories.A fascinating blends humour and horror te book is a treasure for fans of English short stories. You read about ghosts but never get terrorized and infact begin to love some of them. Though macabre finales will haunt you but the effect of fear will wear out quickly. Filled with characters from Indian surroundings, the stories also portray some legendary fictitious and real persons too. Black humour is also not left out that seems so required for its completeness. Gory events are elegantly portrayed and the smell of rustic ambience can be felt in almost every anecdote. Infact the spirits are not all human and have twists that are more unexpected than the characters. Thus the Indian ghosts again remain paramount in

• A Face in the Dark
• The Monkeys
• The Haunted Bicycle
• The Vision
• Whistling in the Dark
• Reunion at the Regal
• Wilson's Bridge
• Topaz
• The Black Cat
• Whispering in the Dark
• The Wind on Haunted Hill
• The Ghost in the Garden
• On Fairy Hill
• Will Ashley Return?
• The Prize
• Eyes of the Cat
  
• Susanna's even Husbands
• The Trouble with Jinns
• The Haunted Bungalow
• Ganpat's Story
• Listen to the Wind
• Ghosts of the Savoy
• The Man who was Kipling
• The Daffodil Case
• Picnic at Fox-Burn
• Something in the Water
• The Family Ghost
• Night of the Millennium